Aah Puffy. I remember the days when he was Puffy the Nightclub Slayer – from those epic days of I’ll Be Missing You when we would do all the actions when we danced to the White Party maestro classics… it’s a Monday for bringing back the big playa vibes and old skool tunage. Here are some of my favourite Puffy hits, in no particular order… 1. I’ll Be Missing You Faith Evans brings out the goosebumps every time with this …
[Click to Open in New Window] It’s Friday, the sun is out and while it’s been another pretty hectic week, it’s the end of the month and soon the end of some epic deadlines that have been weighing over me. I have chocolate, vanilla chai and pretty plum nails, I’ve just done my monthly invoices and I slept right through the night to wake up feeling more like my old self than I have in a while. All in all, …
[Click to Open in New Window] Wow… this is… interesting. Gavin Rossdale is a god, and there is no doubt about that. Landslide however was done by the utterly incomparable Stevie Nicks, who wrote the song about her father. Stevie Nicks managed to project everything into that song, and no one is able to get that range raw emotion – not even Gavin! Also, the guitarist is certainly no Lindsay Buckingham… only Fleetwood Mac can get it 100%. Nevertheless, it’s …
“We’ll walk right up to the sun, hand in hand / Walk right up to the sun, we won’t land” ~ Nas ft. Lauryn Hill – If I Ruled The World I don’t know what it is about old skool hip hop… somehow it was different in the 90′s, there was more of a message, and it was about social issues, challenges and hard knocks. These days it’s about money, booty and trash mostly. Back in the day, when I …
Every now and then, a song throws me for a loop. I can play the song countless times during normal times in life, and then listen to it during another phase and have it mean something so different. I hadn’t listened to Pink Floyd in well over a year, and when I decided to put it on yesterday and Coming Back to Life came on, it just gave me goosebumps. Beautiful song, beautiful lyrics, beautiful way of summing up how …
Ni ryari izuba, Rizagaruka, Hejuru yacu, Ni nd’ uzaricyeza ricyeza. [When will the sun return above us?] [Who will reveal it once again to us?] ~ Wyclef Jean – Million Voices Hotel Rwanda came on last night, and while I didn’t sit down and watch it again (couldn’t drag myself away from this cursed laptop), I will say that the one good thing about the movie was the soundtrack. The Wyclef song that plays at the end especially… that song …
I’ve been up and at it since half seven or so until just now, with my only break being a meeting (some break that was!) and an hour or so over bath time / dinner. So much for having more time, freelancing can really be crazy especially when one has a knack for losing time and getting carried away during deadlines. Anyway, I am exhausted – before I lose track yet again, please tell me that this song doesn’t give …
It’s not yet midnight, which means I still have time to get in this #MusicMonday. Wild Horses has been a favourite song ever since I was a kid – my dad used to play a lot of Stones, both albums and on his guitar. Having a father in a band had its advantages, and one of them was listening to him play – I loved lying on the couch and closing my eyes and just listening for hours. Of all …
*please also admire this wonderful video of random images and occasional relevant Gwen pics* I’ve always been a Gwen fan, but lately I’ve been giving her a lot of play – Underneath it All is one of my favourite songs, for its lyrics and its sexy regae vibes and its somehow endearingly sweet take on things. It reminds me of Led Zeppelin’s D’yer Mak’er (which Sheryl Crow never quite managed to pull off). Another one of my favourite Gwen songs …
“This whole bloodsucking world is a clusterfuck” Well, I don’t know about y’all, but my Monday has included root canal, wrapping up work, frustrating rewrites, no solid food, silly annoyances and very little sleep. On the plus side, myprodol and merlot is proving to be an effective zen booster, even if I can still feel my poor violated jaw through the painkillers. True Blood reruns, couch and yoghurt is as good as it gets right now, and at least the …
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